Wednesday, May 8, 2013

WEIRD OR WHAT - Monsters

SyFy - Original Air Date: 5/7/2013

First up this episode: Mothman. Many people have reported seeing it and being chased by it, and it's even connected with a famous bridge disaster. Joe Nichol (PSICOP) believes that people merely misinterpreted other things, especially the bard owl (a large bird). James Houran believes that mothman is a case of MPI - Mass Psychogenic Illness, basically mass hysteria. He takes people to a regular forest at night and suggests it's haunted. Very quickly people start having 'strange" sensations, proving people can be spooked easily and spread their fear among a group. A monster hunter thinks the beast is real, and he sets audio lures and camera traps to catch mothman on film. He catches nothing, but believes mothman to be a cursed supernatural being, a premonition of doom and destruction. (So much for science.)

A strange thing washes up on Newfoundland and scientist and fisheries expert Garry Stenson is called in to investigate. It seemed to have neither head nor tail, neither bones nor cartilage, so they cut some samples. Mathew Wedel, anatomist, believes such "globsters" are dead whales, their armor-tough skin, all that remains after the "good bits" are scavenged, floating around the sea, slowly decomposing. Dr. Hans Larsson, paleontologist, thinks in most cases, that is true. But, there's some chance that megalodons (giant white sharks) still live in the very deep oceans, and some globsters may be their remains. (Again, no proof.)

In India's capital, Delhi, a man-beast with lights on its head and steel claws attacks 800 people, causing a panic. Is the monkey man science gone wrong or a plot by neighboring Pakistan? One journalist believes so. Jay Lahkani, on the other hand, believes that the explanation lies in Indian culture and myths, accentuated by a few pranksters. A cryptozoologist believes it may be a human-ape hybrid, an experiment unleashed on the public. Of course, he has no proof (because this is a crazy conspiracy theory).